Belle Gibson rose to fame around the world when she reported suffering from cancer. She was found guilty of deceiving public opinion.
After rising to stardom thanks to the tale of her alleged victory over her brain cancer, Beautiful Gibson, 25, had published a successful cookery book in 2013. “The Whole Pantry” featured 80 mostly plant-based recipes inspired by his alleged battle with disease.
The Australian blogger explained that she used natural therapies, Ayurvedic medicine, for example, and followed a diet free of gluten and refined sugar to overcome the disease. A great Australian success story that collapsed in 2015.
A lawsuit
That year, the young woman confesses in The Australian Women’s Weekly to have lied and never to have been ill. A disillusion that the Australian people will not let pass. Victoria’s consumer protection agency, Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV), lodged a complaint against the blogger and the Federal Court upheld most of her arguments.
The young woman had “Deceptive and deceptive behavior,” the Court recognized this week. And although the sentence has not yet been determined, she faces up to A $ 220,000 in fines (€ 157,000) and her company up to A $ 1.1 million (800,000 euros) in penalties. , told Agence France Presse (AFP), a spokesperson for the CAV.
A series of fantasies
“Ms. Gibson has deliberately played on the desire of Australians to help the less fortunate,” said judge Debra Mortimer. The latter, however, did not rule out the possibility that Ms. Gibson “may have been the victim of a series of fantasies about her state of health” because it was impossible to prove with certainty that she “did not really think she had the condition. ‘cancer.
As a reminder, Belle Gibson had seen her lie crumble when she had not given as she had promised 300,000 dollars of her proceeds to charity. At the same time, his friends had started asking questions in the media about his state of health. The young woman will soon be fixed on her fate during a second hearing.
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